Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of a violet color: purple or purplish; blue with a tinge of red.
- Of, resembling, or pertaining to the Violarieæ (Violaceæ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling violets in color; bluish purple.
- adjective (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants, of which the violet is the type. It contains about twenty genera and two hundred and fifty species.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mycology
violet colored.
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Examples
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The work includes a life like copy of the official Chinon Parchment, violaceous stains and all.
Vatican Parchment Detailing 14th Century Trial Of Templars Discredits Da Vinci Code 2007
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My favorites were the toco toucan, motmot, currasows, Yucatan jay, cinnamon-colored cuckoo, and pileated woodpecker and violaceous trogon (a relative of the resplendent quetzal).
Studying Nature in Mexico is an Unforgettable Adventure 2007
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And his violaceous lips gave forth a breath more nauseous than the exhalation from a corpse.
Salammbo 2003
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+Gills+ adnate, 2 to 3 lines broad, somewhat distant, slightly serrulated, of a peculiar ashy violaceous color, at length slightly cinnamon from the spores.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Caroline A. Burgin
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Weals, pustules, carbuncles, parotides, violaceous tumours, black swellings, are all respectable words, which have their true and legitimate signification: but I say that they dont affect the question at all.
Chapter XXXVII 1909
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The administration of the salicylate of soda modified in degree this violaceous odor.
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The administration of the salicylate of soda modified in degree this violaceous odor.
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Usually the disease begins as one or several rounded, circumscribed, pin-head - to pea-sized lesions; slightly scaly, somewhat elevated, and of a pinkish, reddish or violaceous color.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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In some instances it does, but the irregular and angular outline, the slightly-umbilicated, flattened, smooth or scaly summits, and the dull-red or violaceous color, the history and course, of lichen planus, will serve to differentiate.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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It is usually superficial, has thin, red, undermined edges of a violaceous color, and an irregular base with granulations covered scantily with pus.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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